3/4/25

March's goal for Her Private Garden has been met with 1012 tent/506 full x stitches and 3.97% complete. 

Warrior Alice is out now for her March stitches.

3/3/25

 February goal met for Her Private Garden  with 1042 tent/ 521 full x stitches and 3.7% complete.

I'm going to try to finish March's Goal while this is out.

3/1/25

 January goal met for Her Private Garden with 1052 tent/526 full x stitches and 3.42% complete.

This is going to stay out until I switch or get caught up to my February/ March goals and switch.

2/25/25

 Sunday, I met my goal for Death By Cross Stitch.  I added 594 stitches resulting in DBCS being 8.24% complete.

I've brought Steampunk Portal back out to work on moving it along.

2/21/25

 Last night, I met my goal for Winter Rose Manor with 549 stitches.  Those stitches got me down the left border and starting across the bottom.

Death By Cross Stitch is out next.

2/20/25

 I've met my January/February goal for Warrior Alice with 4024 tent/2012 full x stitches.  She's now 52.79% complete

For a bit of a change of pace, I've pulled out Winter Rose Manor to meet its 2025 goal.

2/17/25

Warrior Alice has seen some lovely progress in the last few days.  I kind of wish I could finish this one this year too, but then I would be sad she was finished.

Last night, I finished page 21, she's now 51.74% complete.

Alice is going to remain out for about another 1400 tent stitches to meet my Jan/Feb goals.

 

2/13/25

Last night I finally met my February goal for The Loneliness of Autumn.  It's now 52.26% complete.

I've put this away until next month and pulled out Warrior Alice to work on the amended goal I've set of 2000 tent stitches per month.  Since I'm also making up for January too, it may take a minute.

 

2/11/25

Saturday morning, I finished page 14 of The Loneliness of Autumn from Love Thy Thread.  It's now 50.76% complete.

I'm still a little ways out from meeting my February goal but I'm hoping that will happen in the next couple of days so I can switch out to another project.

 

2/3/25

 I was on the struggle bus in January which resulted in my stitch counts being WAY down.

on 1/1, I started the HAED 2025 SAL Steampunk Portal.  The 310/939 was fine but the rest of the colors are very confetti.  I believe I made my amended 1/2 page goal.

Then I moved to Loneliness of Autumn which is very confetti heavy, which I knew but that threw my stitchy bug off some more.  Finally, yesterday afternoon, I did meet my January stitch goal that will allow me to finish by the end of 2025.

When I met up with Cornhusker State Stitchers in January, we all started Away We Ride from Autumn Lane Stitchery.  This is on the called for Pumpkin Patch  40ct from BeStitchMe with the called for DMC

I also stitched Be Mine which is one of the Loveable Petites from Little House Needleworks for Heartland Quilting and Stitching for a shop model.

For now, I'm still working on Loneliness of Autumn to finish my February stitch goal before I move onto another project.

1/9/25

 I know I just made my 2025 goals but my current monthly stitching goals are going to kill my stitchy bug.  So, at least for now, I need to amend them.

The 2025 HAED SAL is the culprit.  I've put it away for now.  At this point, I'm hoping for at least half a page per month which will result in the 6 pages in order to receive the other SAL charts.  Unless something changes, I won't be pushing any harder than that.

Loneliness of Autumn will remain my 2025 finish goal since it's my second oldest WIP.  I would focus on Loara Standish but she's a challenge and will just remain with 500 monthly stitches.

Warrior Alice is the other WIP that is going to get a big change, at least for now.  In order to finish her this year, I would need to add almost 6200 tent stitches every month.  I think instead, she's going to become a 2026 finish and she'll get 2000 full x stitches every month.  That will reduce the number of 2026 stitches to about 50000 tent stitches or about 4200 per month which is much more reasonable and the chances of being able to at least touch all my WIPs again this year are much higher.  I have a lot of WIPs and if I can add at least 500 stitches, I feel better about not touching them more frequently.

Loneliness of Autumn is out now and while I haven't added a bunch of stitches yet this month, I'm feeling a lot better about my stitching.

1/6/25

 On 1/1/25, I did start the 2025 HAED SAL of Steampunk Portal.

The top four pages were released several days early but I wanted to still make 2024 progress on my WIPs. 

Since I started, I've stitched 3774 tent/1887 full x stitches out of the 7104 tent/3552 full x stitches I need to complete every month to finish by the end of the year.

Some of the 310/939 reaches the bottom of the page but that was just coincidence as I don't want to be starting and finishing a bunch of threads along the page lines since I've found that stitching over the page lines as much as possible with a thread works better for me.  I've stitched most of both of those colors in this page and have already started the next color to start filling in the rings today.

2025 Preview & Goals

Loara Standish started 1/1/13 stitched 1x3 56 ct Kingston with a HDF silk conversion 

2025 goal:  500 stitches per month

Love Thy Thread's Loneliness of Autumn started 9/6/14

2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco

67962 stitches to finish

2025 goal:  finish

Eclectic Bloke Designs Warrior Alice started 5/10/15

2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco

74346 stitches to finish

2025 goal:  finish

Started 6/1/15

HAED's Her Private Garden

2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco

362561 stitches to finish

2025 goal:  1000 tent stitches per month

Chatelaine's The Heritage Sampler

started 7/25/15

2x2 28 ct Monaco

2025 goal:  finish

HAED's SS Daybreak

started 10/31/15

2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco

734228 stitches to finish

2025 goal:  1000 tent stitches per month

Sea Witch by HAED

started 1/1/16

2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco

185468 stitches to finish

2025 Goal:  1000 tent stitches per month

Chatelaine's Hawaiian Garden Mandala

stitched on 28ct black Monaco with my HDF conversion

started 7/31/16

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Tilton's Feathers in the Wind

started 10/1/16 on 28ct white monaco

105782 stitches to finish

2025 Goal:  1000 tent stitches

Started 1/1/17

The Forgotten by Charting Creations

2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco

104032 stitches to finish

2025 Goal:  1000 tent stitches

Chatelaine's Blue Moroccan Lace Mandala

stitched on 28 ct monaco in Raspberry Beret from Colour Cascades with my HDF conversion

Started 7/5/17

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Chatelaine's Polar Mandala

started 1/1/18 with my HDF conversion for the silks

28 ct white monaco

2025 Goal:  1000 stitches

Renato Parolin's The Bengtsson forest 

Started 9/1/18

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Chatelaine's Evening in the Park

started 1/1/19

32ct Belfast in Cobblestone in called for fibers

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Game of Swannes - Long Dog Samplers

2x1 on 36 ct Putty from Silkweavers with a conversion from my stash

started 7/7/19

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Louisa Coulimore from Hands Across the Sea

1x2 on 46ct Egyptian Sand from Silkweavers

HDF superfine OMOT Heart

started 7/15/19

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Death By Cross Stitch by Long Dog Samplers

1x2 on 36ct Legacy Linen in Examplar in HDF Besmurfed with more blues to be added

started 7/17/19

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Celtic Snow from Northern Expressions Needlework

2x1 on 36ct Midnight Sky from XJuDesign with charted silks

started 7/18/19

2025 Goal 500 stitches

Chatelaine's Convent Herbal Garden

on 28 ct Monaco I dyed

started 7/20/19

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Autumn Quakers from Rosewood Manor

on 40ct Toffee from Silkweavers

started 8/17/19

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

M. Woods 1759 from Milady's Needle

on 46ct from xJuDesign with a custom HDF conversion

started 10/6/19

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Sarah Brezier - Hands Across the Sea

2x1 with DMC on 46ct custom dyed fabric from xJuDesign

started 1/1/20

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Jane Fiddes 1835

stitched on 46 ct Lambswool from xJudesign with called for 100.3 silks

started 7/4/2020

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Growth Rings from Ink Circles

started 10/15/20 with called for HDF silk on Silkweaver's 40 ct French Vanilla Swirl

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Ann Bowers from The Examplarery

stitched using the cotton kit on 35ct

Started 10/27/20

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Anna Sophia Bircham 1871 from Hands Across the Sea on Silkweaver's 46ct Solo with HDF conversion 

Started 12/31/20

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Cider Dragon from Paine Free Crafts

stitched on 28ct Monaco dyed by me

Started 1/9/21

85012 stitches to finish

2025 Goal:  1000 tent stitches

Come into my Garden by Blackbird Designs

40ct Grandpa's Sleeve by xJUDesigns with charted cotton

started 5/23/21

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Sarah Redfearn 1826 from The Scarlett House started 10/24/21

stitched on 46ct Little Dove by xJudesigns with called for Belle Soie and Gloriana silks

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Ann Tong Uffindell 1835 from Hands Across the Sea.  I'm stitching on 46 Vintage Sampler from Victorian Motto with  HDF silk conversion  started 1/1/22

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Margret Croft from Needlework Press on 40ct Weeks Corn Silk with charted overdyed cottons started 5/8/22

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Airships and Floating Castle from Tilton Crafts 2x1 tent on 28ct rose monaco

Started 6/30/22

336104 stitches to finish

2025 Goal 1000 tent stitches

The Castle by Teresa Wentzler 

Started 7/18/22

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Ann Roberts from Hands Across the Seas

46ct with called for 100.3

Started 9/5/22

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Sarah Elizabeth Brooke 1842 by The Scarlett House on 40 ct Dusty Road by Seraphim with called for Belle Soie 

Started 9/10/22

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Alice Bierton 1885 from Samplers Remembered

stitched on 56 ct Weeks Parchment with AVAS Soie Surfine

started 9/17/22

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Pour La Fete by Lindsay Lane Designs on Legacy 53/60 in Sycamore Seed Pod with the Attic conversion to Avas Soie Surfine.

Started 9/28/22

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Plague Doctor from Unconventional XStitch on 28 ct monaco I dyed.

Started 10/1/22

353620 stitches to finish

2025 Goal:  1000 tent stitches

Dragon Lord from Paine Free Crafts on 28 ct monaco I dyed.

Started 10/9/22

117422 stitches to finish

2025 Goal:  1000 tent stitches

Trick or Treat from Paine Free Crafts on 28 ct Monaco I dyed

Started 10/25/22

117068 stitches to finish

2025 Goal:  1000 tent stitches

Ann Grimshaw 1818 from The Scarlett Letter on 46ct Up In the Attic from Fox and Rabbit with HDF OMOT Night 

Started 11/8/22

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Matilda Isabella Creasy from Whilst Iris Naps on 46ct Mushroom from Silkweavers with called for Weeks Dye Works

Started 11/13/22

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Best Friends Max Color from HAED started 12/17/22, 2x1 tent on 28ct Monaco

299089 stitches to finish

2025 Goal:  2000 tent stitches

Winter Rose Manor by Brenda Gervais started 12/31/22 on 46 ct Weeks Confederate Gray with the HDF conversion 

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Jane Charlotte Wynn by The Scarlett House on Weeks 40ct Straw with the called for Weeks overdyed cotton

Started 12/31/22

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Steamy Blue from Crossstitch4everyone on Etsy

stitched 2x1 tent on 28 ct I dyed

Started 12/31/22

116190 stitches to finish

2025 Goal:  1000 tent stitches

Lady of the Flag by Mirabilia

Started 7/4/23 with called for fibers on 30ct Constitution fabric from The Primitive Hare

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

Serenity Harbor from by The Bay Needleart 

Started 8/11/23 for World Cross Stitch Day

Stitched on 40 ct HDF linen in Pearled Barley

2025 Goal:  500 stitches

No Place Like Home from Unconventional XStitch

Stitched 2x1 tent on 28ct monaco I dyed

Started 11/1/23

734302 stitches remaining. 

2025 Goal:  1000 tent stitches

2024 New Year, New Start

QS Voodoo in Violet from HAED, stitched 2x1 tent on 28 ct monaco dyed by me.

136474 stitches remaining 

2025 Goal:  1000 tent stitches

Ms Gothica I from Tilton Crafts stitched 2x1 tent on 28ct Monaco, started 3/30/24

121268 stitches remaining 

2025 Goal:  1000 tent stitches

Quaker Tiles Flag (USA) started 7/13/24 on unnamed 46ct Be Stitch Me linen with my conversion to change the red and blue.

31883 stitches remaining 

Together We Stand from HAED, started 8/1/24 on 28ct monaco I dyed.

208610 stitches remaining 

Goal:  1000 tent stitches

Sarah A Sanderson 1872 from The Scarlett House started 9/1/24 with everything called for on 46ct Valley Forge from Needle and Flax.

Goal:  500 stitches

Mary Gypson 1828 from Whilst Iris Naps started 9/15/24 started on 46ct and all charted colors on 46ct Thornfield from Needle and Flax

Goal:  500 stitches

Summer Moon from Plum Street Samplers started 9/18/24 on 40ct Prairie Grass from Seraphim fabric and all charted colors

Goal:  500 stitches

Our Path of Light from Unconventional XStitch started 10/31/24 on 28ct Monaco I dyed.

Goal:  1000 tent stitches

Catfish Cthulhu from Unconventional XStitch started 11/3/24 on 28 ct Monaco I dyed.

Goal:  1000 tent stitches